The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1887-05-11
AMONG THE CHURCHES.
Some Late Events of Interest in the Re-
liEious world.


Some Late Events of Interest In the Re-
liEious world.
The largest parishes in the Lutheran
Church are to be found In Central Russia One
of these numbers 800 villages and comprises
5000 souls.
In Protestant Church building at
Smyrna three separate congregations worship
every Sunday in as many different languages,
Armenian, Turkish and Greek.
OF the $4,000 inhabitants OF the sa-
moan Islands it is stated that 1000 are church
members and 1900 are candidates for member
ship. There are 200 native ministers.
The Rev. George Grenfell in the mis-
sion steamer Peace has traversed 8,40O miles
along the Congo river and its larger tributaries
visiting many tribes which had never seen a
white man before.
1t is proposed to erect monument to
Robert Snow, the founder of the first Sunday
school in Brooklyn. The estimated cost will be
about $4,000, to be raised by subscriptions
from Sunday-sehool scholars.
There is growing feeling for church
unity in the German Reformed Church, accord
ing to the Christtda Horld. That paper thinks
the desire is for union with the Presbyterian
or Dutch Reformed Church. or both
AT st. John the Baptist's Church,
Liverpool, Eng, where alleged ritualistic prae-
tees are carried on, the vicar on Sunday twice
lighted the candles on the altar, and one of the
church wardens each time blew them out.
Father Hyacinthe, whose secession
from the Roman Catholic Church made such a
sensation in Paris some years ago, has not been
hip, and he delivered his Lentcn lectures in the
American Church in Paris.
A Protestant confederation has been
formed In Germany whose announced object
Is to seek on the one hand to combat the grow
ing power OF the Roman Catholic Church, and
ON tho other to strengthen evangelical unity
among Protestant churches.
DR.. r. Kerr Eccles, writing In the English
baptist Aa0dsiae of tho condition of things &C.
clesiastical in this country, ssys. "The grand
factor In the American Christianity of to-day
Is feminine. Men may be professors, preachers
and deacons, but the activities of the member
ship OF the church at large are sustained by
women"
The latest device of the Socialists of
London for attracting public attention Is TO
march in procession to churches. When they
concentrated their forces on st. Paul's Cathe-
dral the Archdeacon of London, who preached
on the occasion, gave them a sermon that Just
suited their needs on the text: "Thc rich and
the poor meet together; tho Lord is the maker
of them all.''
Speaking of Cardinal Gibbons report
on the knights of Labor the London Tablet
says: The new democratic power needs only
to be Christianized, baptized and instructed
The mission ha olt,ol. ff, fys..t Att.
as she has Christianized the old autocratic
power so now she must do the same thing for
the democratic. The Tablet commends Cardi-
nal Gibbons report as ain extremely important
end able document.
The suffice and juggernaut have been
abolished in India, but the British government
still keeps its hands of the child marriages,
and the widows arc still subject TO contumely,
abuse and ostracism. The world Is large one
and difficult to govern with equity. by and by
the moral sense will stop the Ubiquitous opium
trade, and British wealth win cease to be
wrung from tho debauchery of families caused
by this awful traffic.
Twenty-Five years of Christian effort
among the needy and deserving poor of New
York has convinced the Rev. q. g. Goss that
many of these, In all parts of the city, are uni
ablsfor want of means, experience, or ON ac-
count of timidlty, to secure their just and Inv
full rights. For the benefit of such Mr.. GOss
has opened bureau in connection with the
Peoples Mission. where legal advice will be
given free OF charge, and where matters of
dispute of n civil character will be adjusted, or
II need be, prosecuted.
The results of Protestant missionary
enterprise are summed up as follows: Eight
hundred and seventy thousand adults, converts
from among the heather. These, with their
mnnitIes scatteresi oyei aimosr eS,ry
of the habitablo globe, numbering in the ag
gregate at least 100000 souls. Two Thousand
five humid cd of these converts are ordained
minister's of the gospel, placed over Christian
congregations; ~ 900 are employed as evangel
lists TO their beathen fellow-countrymen, anda
large number are acting as voluntary agents In
preaching and teaching in Sunday schools and
engaged in other ksof Christian usefulness.
The children of these converts, with lnrge
number of the children of the heather, are re-
ceiving secular and religious instruction In day